Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2024
Abstract
In the face of a rapidly urbanizing and warming planet, there is urgency for local governments to develop community resilience strategies. Successful climate change adaptation will likely require the inclusion of local knowledge, especially from historically marginalized communities. One pathway for this is through research projects and government planning activities that employ processes of co-production to generate actionable knowledge relevant to the community. This paper describes the approach, results, and reflections of a multi-sectoral partnership organized to engage residents of a small municipality to co-produce the meaning of community climate resilience, through methods including individual interviews, cognitive mapping, and a group workshop. This approach can help address recognitional justice, a form of environmental justice defined as acknowledging and uplifting the lived experiences and expertise of impacted communities. As a case study, the paper provides details on implementing the project that reveal the challenges and strengths, as well as the non-linear aspects of this type of community-based engagement. It concludes with a discussion of potential ways to overcome the obstacles to scaling labor and time-intensive community-engaged processes of co-production.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
© 2025 The Author(s). Earth Stewardship published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Ecological Society of America.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Recommended Citation
Romolini, M., Hillemeier, M., & Herrmann, D. L. (2025). Community co-production of the meaning of local climate resilience and action: A case study. Earth Stewardship, 2(4), e70026. https://doi.org/10.1002/eas2.70026
